The light-warping structures known as metamaterials have a new trick in their ever-expanding repertoire. Researchers have built a silver, glass and chromium nanostructure that can all but stop visible light cold in one direction while giving it a pass in the other. The device could someday play a role in optical information processing and in novel biosensing devices.
Jul 1st, 2014
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Five Virginia Tech student-led teams triumphed in the first-ever Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship Challenge, hosted by the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science.
Jul 1st, 2014
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Researchers are looking to combat dangerous sub-dermal implsnt infections by upgrading your new hip or kneecap in a fashion appreciated since ancient times - adding gold. The result is a new antibacterial material based on gold nanoparticles.
Jul 1st, 2014
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The newly developed membrane could be manufactured at industrial scale, and could process large quantities of the finely mixed materials back into pure oil and water.
Jul 1st, 2014
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Scientists have proposed a new type of photo-energy detector - of infrared pulsed laser light - using a nanoporous ZnO/n-Si structure that would be relatively simple and inexpensive to develop. Photodetectors are a core component in optoelectronic devices, and this new detector could have expanded applications in the future.
Jul 1st, 2014
Read moreResearchers have discovered a completely new material, which could revolutionize information technology, computer processes and data storage.
Jul 1st, 2014
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Scientists propose use of fluorescent molecular rotors as a new tool to study critical protein interaction in cancer research.
Jul 1st, 2014
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Scientists don't fully understand how plastic solar panels work, which complicates the improvement of their cost efficiency, thereby blocking the wider use of the technology. However, researchers now have determined how light beams excite the chemicals in solar panels, enabling them to produce charge.
Jul 1st, 2014
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The Graphene Special Interest Group (GrapheneSIG) has published a Graphene Think Piece. The document was initiated by the UK's Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to 'inform a view on where and how the UK might best gain economic value from graphene related activities'.
Jul 1st, 2014
Read moreComputer simulation shows how to make a crystal that would toggle like a light switch between conductive and non-conductive structures. This could lead to flexible electronic materials and, for instance, enable a cell phone to be woven into a shirt.
Jul 1st, 2014
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ElectroGraph is a project supported by the EU and its consortium consists of ten partners from both research institutes and industries. One of the main tasks of this project is to develop new types of supercapacitors with significantly improved energy storage capacities.
Jul 1st, 2014
Read moreNanotechnology offers solutions to pressing global issues, but they also have the potential to lead to unexpected risks and unintended consequences. A newly released book, Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety: Risk, Regulation and Management, offers insights into how these new technologies may be applied to build a sustainable future and provides practical strategies for identifying and mitigating the potential risks that accompany emerging nanotechnology.
Jul 1st, 2014
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Researchers have uncovered the first step in the process that transforms gas-phase molecules into solid particles like soot and other carbon-based compounds.
Jun 30th, 2014
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Researchers have created an imaging technology more powerful than anything that has existed before, and is fast enough to observe life processes as they actually happen at the molecular level. This will allow creation of improved biosensors to study everything from nerve impulses to cancer metastasis as it occurs
Jun 30th, 2014
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In preclinical tests, artificial platelets, called 'hemostatic nanoparticles', when injected after blast trauma increased survival rates to 95 percent from 60 percent, and showed no signs of interfering with healing or causing other complications weeks afterward.
Jun 30th, 2014
Read moreA research collaboration between Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has utilized nanomedicine technologies to develop a drug-delivery system that can precisely target and attack cancer cells in the bone, as well as increase bone strength and volume to prevent bone cancer progression.
Jun 30th, 2014
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